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And? Who cares what they think? There are plenty of us that would like to get Bluray support so we could rip the free Bluray discs at the library and the $1.25 24 hour rentals from Redbox for our HTPC.

May I ask why? When downloading a rip of it is faster?

If you already had free access to the disk via your local library, you can't really make the argument that downloading it instead is somehow wrong.

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It's also possible to build a car with rectangular wheels. Doesn't mean the concept is feasible, and it doesn't invalidate the fact that rectangles are fundamentally incompatible with the idea of wheeled transportation.

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The link I provided to GPLv3 is my opinion to your words of "The problem is, DRM is fundamentally incompatible with open source." in #14.
It's possible to write a DRM in an open source way. From this aspect, not fundamentally incompatible.

I agree the rest of your saying, just as the 2nd part of my post saying: in the case of Blu-ray with an existing DRM, it could be another a closed-source implementation as their current DVD one.

The GPL protects the right to freely modify the works covered under it. Therefore, a GPL-covered implementation of DRM can be modified to remove the restrictions. The article you linked specifically goes on to state that the DMCA would not prohibit such behavior. To expand on this point a little: the DMCA has a clause which prohibits circumvention of what it calls "effective access control technology". Seems to me that, because the GPL requires the source code to be made available and because the GPL explicitly permits modifications to the program, the assumption is that no US judge would consider a GPL-covered implementation of DRM to be effective access control technology.

This, of course, only applies to the US. Other jurisdictions may have other laws covering "access control technologies" and DRM.

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If you already had free access to the disk via your local library, you can't really make the argument that downloading it instead is somehow wrong.

Because you payed at least 1.25$, a fee or taxes (depending on how the library is financed) And downloading is only an option if you're not living in a "internet developing country" like I do :-( 16kbits and they now want to limit it volume based (e.g. after xGB of downloads you get downgraded to 2kbits). So yeah, real BD support would be nice.

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I'm all for functional and easy Blu-Ray playback on Linux. I own hundreds of movies and having Blu-Ray playback on a multi-media notebook is something I want for my next laptop purchase so getting that on Linux would mean I could ditch Windows.

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If you want symmetric bandwidth up- and down-stream you shouldn't buy an asymmetric service (guess what the A in ADSL stands for).
You really should change your service. It is no problem here to get fast Internet cheap without artificial bandwidth limit based on traffic.

This is not a Germany wide problem, it is the problem of you choosing a crappy ISP.

So tell me how. I live near Stuttgart. There's no cable or fiber near my home. What should I do? I have friends that have 6kbits (unstable) and this only since this year (before it was 1-3kbits). When they switch ISP all they get is a cheaper connection that sometimes disconnects. Good for you, that your town has good internet connection but that is not something wide spread. I know more people with slow/problematic connections than with good speeds and low prices.